SpaceX Lists Sustainability, Safety Principles

SpaceX's guiding principles for space sustainability and safety are designing and building safe, reliable satellites "design[ed] for demise"; using extremely low orbit insertion; operating below 600 km; sharing data transparently; and employing an autonomous collision avoidance system on each satellite, it blogged Tuesday. It said its satellite network reliability exceeds 99%, and no satellites launched in the past 15 missions failed after orbit raising.